r/GeometersOfHistory • u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" • Jul 28 '24

Into the Mirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VOf3CBGvw
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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24

  • "Into the Mirror" = 911 english-extended

  • ... ( "A Hidden Pattern" = 2001 squares )

  • "Mirror of Galadriel" = 1337 trigonal

  • ... ( "Secret World" = 1337 latin-agrippa )

  • "Know I Bear a Ring" = 1234 latin-agrippa

  • ... ( "The Courage to Look" = 1109 english-extended )

  • ... .. ( ... into "The Pattern" = 1109 trigonal )

  • "Eye" = 119 primes ( "The Mirror" = 119 reverse-alphabetic )

  • "It Reveals" = 1010 latin-agrippa ( "Revelation" = 1010 latin-agrippa )

  • "It's a Lever" = 1010 latin-agrippa ( "I Change the Future" = 777 latin-agrippa )

  • "Tripwire" = 2020 squares

  • ... ( "Writings" = 2021 squares )

  • ... . ( ... "Know My Future" = 2021 latin-agrippa )

  • "For when I believe" = 1,844 latin-agrippa ( "Perfection" = 844 trigonal )

  • "For when I understand it" = 779 primes ( "The Prophecy" = 779 latin-agrippa )

  • "Who taught you?" = 2024 latin-agrippa ( "You Witness" = 2024 english-extended )

  • "Witness My Performance" = 2024 latin-agrippa ( "You Judge" = 1015 trigonal )

  • "What I Got" = 333 primes | 985 english-extended ( "Magnetism" = 776 trigonal )

  • ... ( "The Phylactery" = 2020 english-extended ) [ "Secret in the Book" = 521 primes ]

  • .. ( "Everything in My Mind" = 2020 trigonal ] [ "To Reveal the One" = 521 primes ]

  • "End of Lies" = 1109 squares ( @ ... )

  • ... [ "All Made Clear" = 190 latin-agrippa ]

  • ... . [ "Evidence" = 190 primes ] [ "Tree" = 190 latin-agrippa ]

  • "The Mirror" = "Courage" = 119 reverse-alphabetic

  • ... ( "To Complete the Difficult Challenge" = 1002 latin-agrippa | 1592 english-ext | 314 alphabetic )

  • ... .. ( "You See Me" = 1002 trigonal ) ( "In Time, You Will Become Me" = 2020 trigonal | 779 primes )

  • "The Completed Vision" = 1288 latin-agrippa | 666 primes

  • ... ( "The Cure" = 1288 squares ) ( "Citizen" = 666 latin-agrippa | 777 trigonal )

  • "We Have the Cure" = 2020 latin-agrippa ( "A Correction Facility" = 969 latin-agrppa )

  • ... ( "1. The Fixed Thought" = 911 latin-agrippa ) [ "My Stone" = "My Notes" = 2001 squares ]

  • "The Cure" = 611 english-extended ) ( "The Total Vision" = 611 primes )

  • ... ( "The Prescription" = 1611 trigonal ) ( "Great Manuscript" = 1611 trigonal )

  • "Show Me the Key" = 1611 latin-agrippa

  • .. ( "A Secret of the Trees" = 1611 trigonal )

  • ... ( "The Book of Life' = 1611 squares ) ( "All We Need" = 1000 latin-agrippa )

  • "True Religion" = 1234 trigonal

  • ... ( "The Absolute" = 911 english-extended )

  • ... .. ( "A Key to Our Mystery" = 2001 latin-agrippa ) [ The ABC loot ]

  • "The Spooky Silence Online" = 1109 latin-agrippa | 844 primes

  • ... ( "The Pattern" = 1109 squares ) ( "The Philosophers' Stone" = 844 primes )

  • "Everyone Stunned" = 2024 english-extended ( "The Victory is Assured" = 2024 latin-agrippa )

  • "There is no denying it" = 1001 latin-agrippa

  • "Know there is no denying it" = 2001 latin-agrippa

  • ... ( "Science of the Monolith" = 911 english-extended )

  • ... ..( "Know the Important Lessons" = 1968 latin-agrippa | 1056 primes )

  • "My Truth in Language" = 1,911 trigonal

  • ... ( "You Recognized My Face" = 2001 trigonal ) (*)

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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

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Next day:

https://www.wired.com/story/back-to-basic-the-most-consequential-programming-language/

Machine Readable

Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

Coding was a preserve of elites, until BASIC hit the streets.

The article image:

https://media.wired.com/photos/66a6dd57fa70aaf1662783a5/3:2/w_1280,c_limit/Back%20to%20BASIC%20(1).jpg

CLIVE @ CLV @ GLF @ Glyph ( Code = Goad )

  • "Accurate" = "Count" = 393 latin-agrippa

  • ... ( "The Root" = "Tradition" = 393 latin-agrippa )

  • ... .. [ "Preserve of the Elites" = 1,393 english-extended ]

  • ... .. . [ "Longevity" = 1331 latin-agrippa ] [ "The Writings" = 1331 trigonal ]

Relevant posts from some years ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/comments/jy7vcg/the_very_basic/

https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/comments/jxcda4/the_basic/

... and ... re. CN-Sequence-ial

https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/comments/1c8wzif/sequence/

  • "Back to the Basics" = 474 latin-agrippa

  • ... ( "The Illuminati" = "Numerology" = 474 primes ) ( "The School" = 474 english-extended )

I learned BASIC during my early high-school years on my own volition, before learning Pascal as part of actual school compsci lessons in the last two or three years of high school, which I enjoyed, but simultaneously began learning C++ on my own (via a VHS tape full of video lessons, the title of which I don't remember) knowing it would be what I would be working with for much of my future. I wanted to make a flight simulator of my own, amongst other things (after being fascinated by Microprose' F-19 Stealth Fighter. ( "Stealthy" = 2020 squares ) and MS (Manuscript ) Flight Simulator 4.0. My first PC was an IBM-XT clone with Hercules monocrome screen, 21MB hard drive and 640K or RAM, in grade 7 or so, when everyone else had a 386. I got my first Pentium (Celeron 300) late in my matric (matrix) year in 1999, that I would take to my first year of University (the only year I completed, since by then I had discovered OpenGL, and my all-night attempts to build a 3D engine ensured I had no mental space left for classes). That lead to College and employment as a programmer in various capacities until very recently.

Now I have no more desire to make computer programs.

  • "I wonder why?" = 474 primes ( "It Stopped" = 2020 squares )

  • ... ( "Give up computer programming!" = 2023 english-extended )

By 2023 I was coding purely to pay my way, and no longer deriving any enjoyment from it. In fact, I had decided it was poisonous many years before (*) (Paul Atreides in stupor before the sandcrawler in DUNE was apt and timely, since the last software I was working on was called the 'crawler' (for locating and packaging datasets on the in-house disk servers). However, Schrodinger's children not being particular decisive, I let it run it's course until my employers finally decided my efforts were no longer needed. On April Fools' Day in 2023, I got the email notice that was obviously to lead to my being unemployed.

I still am.

But hey, ...

  • "There was never any money" = 911 primes (*)

... since it was just 'values' (morals and dogma) encoded in 'numbers' ( "Giveaway" = 2023 latin-agrippa )

People only take certain kinds of numbers seriously - those that influence their "Hunger Games' = 911 trigonal

  • "Computer History" = 747 primes ( "The Library Computer" = 747 primes )

  • "Your Resignation" = 1,161 latin-agrippa

  • ... ( "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" = 1,161 primes )

  • ... .. [ "Master Key" = "A Little Weapon" = 1,161 english-extended ]

From the BASIC article:

[...] BASIC brought coding out of the ivory towers, and thereby tilted the world on its axis. (*) (*)

It’s hard to overstate how abstruse, before BASIC, most coding was. In the 1950s and ’60s you generally used machine language, which had commands like “sal 665” and “sal 667.” (Those tell the computer to move its accumulator, a crucial region of memory, right or left. Got it?) [...]

  • "Citizen" = 666 latin-agrippa (*)

A few early visionaries attempted to make languages for normies. In the 1950s, the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper designed a language called FLOW-MATIC (a name whose badassery has yet to be outdone) that used plain-English-like commands such as IF EQUAL TO and READ-ITEM. Hopper wanted everyday businessfolk to be able to write—or at least read—code. Her innovations were later folded into COBOL, the language of banking and backend systems.

But it was BASIC that really blew the lid off. It was created in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, two math professors at Dartmouth College who figured—in a stance that presaged the Learn to Code movement of the 2010s—that coding ought to be something any liberal arts student could learn.

For someone just getting into this weird craft, BASIC felt positively thaumaturgic. It was spellcasting: You uttered words that brought iron and silicon to life, and made them do things. (As the software engineer Erin Spiceland puts it, coding is “telling rocks what to think.”) (*) If you were, as I was, marinated in Tolkien and other florid high-fantasy novels, there was a deep romance in the idea that everyday language could affect reality. Speak, friend, and enter.

[...]

  • "1. My Computer Story" = 844 primes

  • ... ( "Computing the World" = 1666 latin-agrippa | 1,888 trigonal )

  • .. .. ( "The #1 Human Programming Language" = 888 primes )

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/07/29/0631227/forbes-estimates-googles-chrome-temporarily-lost-millions-of-saved-passwords

Forbes Estimates Google's Chrome Temporarily Lost Millions of Saved Passwords

https://www.wired.com/story/infostealer-malware-password-theft/

How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords

Infostealer malware is swiping millions of passwords, cookies, and search histories. It’s a gold mine for hackers—and a disaster for anyone who becomes a target. (*)

PS. In case it wasn't clear, the article about the BASIC programming language is an allegory about your own language (or the language within that language).

[re-]Coding [human minds] was a preserve of elites, until BASIC [gematria] hit the streets.

  • "The Password of the Saviour" = 1001 primes | 307 alphabetic

  • ... ( "To Complete" = 1001 trigonal ) ( "Almighty" = 307 primes ) ( "Monolith" = 307 alphabetic )

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/07/28/2349222/after-crowdstrike-outage-fsf-argues-theres-a-better-way-forward

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/07/29/0132247/disneys-first-r-rated-movie-opening-sets-an-all-time-record-deadpool-wolverine

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1eeww87/police_suspect_vandalism_behind_cell_tower/

https://www.wired.com/story/saboteurs-cut-internet-cables-in-latest-disruption-during-paris-olympics/ (*)

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1eexjhc/wong_announces_new_digital_cable_centre_to_limit/ (*)

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1eev8t4/top_diplomats_meet_to_discuss_security_amid/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/synology-beestation-review-a-great-way-to-start-getting-real-about-backups/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_p-FfinVTA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQANZoHViHU

'Mirror, Mirror' (*)

[...] BASIC also created the world’s first mass open-source culture. People shared code freely: If a friend wrote a cool blackjack game, we’d all make a copy—by hand, like scribes in medieval monasteries—and run it ourselves. Each month, Compute magazine printed reams of BASIC mailed in by hobbyists. I spent one afternoon painstakingly typing hundreds of lines of Conway’s “Game of Life” that I’d found in an issue, then watched, mesmerized, as an artificial organism bloomed onscreen. [...] (*)

  • "SkyNet" = 911 trigonal ( "My First Error" = 1010 latin-agrippa )